"Being of Two Minds"

Our playing field is completely overgrown. I'm calling it a "playing field" though it was just a bare hillside with rocks we plucked and threw into a sewer grate for a game. But it was not "just," as in "inconsequential." I only mean the field was in no way official. And I mean to be neither sentimental nor nostalgic -- though to say our field does mark it with an intimacy, I realize. To present
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—Lia Purpura, from Rough Likeness

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

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02-18-2012
Rough Likeness

510 Reading Series Minás Gallery 815 W. 36th Street Baltimore, MD 21211
5:00 pm Reading from Rough Likeness


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